Pleasant A. Hackleman

Pleasant Adams Hackleman (15 November 1814-3 October 1862) was a Union Army Brigadier-General during the American Civil War.

Biography
Pleasant Adams Hackleman was born in Franklin County, Indiana in 1814, and he served as probate judge of Rush County from 1837 to 1841. In 1841, he was elected to the State House as a Republican, edited the Rushville Republican until 1861, and attended the 1860 Republican National Convention in Chicago, where he helped choose Abraham Lincoln as the party's candidate. He was given command of the 16th Indiana Infantry Regiment at the start of the American Civil War, and he was later promoted to Brigadier-General and served under Ulysses S. Grant. He was shot through the neck and killed while rallying his brigade at the Second Battle of Corinth in 1862.